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StrongBox Script feedbacks
sup... just wanted you guys opinions on the StrongBox script. i know this Q? has been posted before, but search is broken
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I had Pennywize and then got Strongbox, been using it for 2 years on my site without any problems at all
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works fine for me
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I have had it for 2 years on all my pay sites and it is awesome
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thanx guys. anybody else has it installed?
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We had it installed around 6 months ago, but it failed miserbly, we had endless problems with it, as it was forcing members to re-login all the time, blocking ips left right and center, inc us! and it became too dificult to keep using, and members were complaining.
Hate to put a dampner on things as I had only heard good comments also. I am not saying though it is a bad product. It just did not work for our members.
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and most systems that appear to be somewhat similar are immediately apparent from looking over the site, like the fact that with Strongbox you pay a one time flat fee instead of a monthly fee. You're probably already familiar with some of those differences and if not you'll see them by looking over the site, so I won't rehash all of those details here. Instead I wanted to mention a couple of major differences in the overall philosophy of Strongbox which may not be as readily apparent. There are two major differences between Strongbox and "the other guys". Strongbox was designed because the other systems were not at all effective enough for some sites, in many people's opinions. Other systems were convenient to use, they had pretty interfaces, etc. but they just didn't work all that darn well. Therefore in the design of Strongbox we gave up some things, like easy installation on some sites, to gain much better security. I figured that even if it takes two hours for me to install and configure it for you but then your site is secure for the next 10 years that's a better idea than having something that can be installed in 10 minutes but isn't nearly as effective. So Strongbox provides much better security at the cost of being more of a hassle to install on some sites. Also because of the emphasis on building the most secure possible system, that means a major emphasis on research and development. We don't spend a lot of time and money on marketing, we don't build a super slick web site, we just build a security system that is second to none by developing new techniques and refining old techniques on a daily basis. For the first year after Strongbox was released it didn't even have a web page. We were too busy researching how to most effectively stop proxy based dictionary attacks coming from 50 different IPs at once to worry about making a web page. Later we put up a simple page, mostly just to avoid answering the same questions over and over. But rather than making the web page real pretty so it would sell well or even taking the time to finish up the secure online credit card order form, we went back to the lab and built the Strongbox Proactive Spider, which actively spiders thousands of password sites every day looking for passwords to your site. Many webmasters have asked about a referal program so they could put up Strongbox banners or whatever, which would be great marketing for Strongbox. However, instead of developing a banner program we decided to spend the time on geotracking, so Strongbox could detect when a username is being used from many different locations. So in short Strongbox has a very plain web site, almost no marketing, no smiling sales guys on the other end of the phone, and it has the absolute best security in the world by far. Nothing else comes anywhere close. (You can call us, but rather than a smiling sales guy you'll be talking to a mad scientist who will get all excited telling you about the latest technology added to Strongbox). In closing, I'll mention that several of the specific technologies used by Strongbox that aren't available anywhere else aren't mentioned on the site and I'll probably never mention them in a public post. Some of the things we've done are pretty good ideas that work pretty darn well. It'd be easy enough for "the other guys" to do some of these things and make their product work better, but if they want to find out why Strongbox is so much better than their system they'll have to buy a copy and see why. I'm not going to lay it all out for them in this post. ![]()
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not for me, but I wanted to give you my impression of what happened with that situation, the the best of my recollection anyway. As some GFY webmasters know, satisfied webmasters are very important to me and I'll spend many hours working with you to get any system I build working how you want it, working with your other software, etc. so YDG's experience kind of weighs on me. This is especially true because YDG seemed to be a really nice, gracious person, the kind of person you want to do good work for. I would very much have preferred to have been in closer contact with YDG so I knew what problems were happening and could have helped to resolve them. I was ICQed once or twice with a question about "why was this username blocked?" or whatever, and I responded as I normally do showing the webmaster in the reports what happened - whether that username had tried to log in from 5 different countries or whatever. This is normal for webmasters to take a couple days to get familiar with the software, how the reports work, etc. and they often have such questions initially. Then a couple weeks later I was told they were removing it. Maybe I didn't communicate well enough that if there were any problems or questions please let me know so they can be taken care of. I didn't feel like I was given any opportunity to provide the support they needed. Some of these problems I hadn't heard about until this post. If users were getting kicked back to the login page there was a glitch that needed to be corrected and could have been corrected had I been contacted when the first member complained. Strongbox normally doesn't block IP addresses very readily, so if their IP got blocked or more than one legit user's IP got blocked something was almost certainly broken. YDG is talking about Strongbox, but rather a broken or misconfigured copy of Strongbox. Strongbox might occasionally suspend a username for a couple of hours do to suspcious activity, but rarely if ever have I seen it block an IP that wasn't actually attackign the site, so if in fact the post is correct in stating that several legit IP got blocked there was a major misconfiguration that I was never made aware of so that I could take care of that for them.
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![]() We add new stuff darn near daily, so something from a couple months ago seems like old news to me, but yeah, that was added in the last few months.
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There was a typo in my earlier post.
It should have read: YDG is not talking about Strongbox, but rather a broken or misconfigured copy of Strongbox.
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I am more than happy with my decision to have my site protected by Strongbox.
Ray is very professional and was always prompt when I had a question or concern.
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Ray, what's your email addy?
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Ray,
I sent you a couple of emails about the install of the script. I already payed through epassporte. let's give this script a test run ![]() |
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Gotta say that strongbox has blocked sql, brute force, and other frequent attacks and kept our members area safe and secure with no hassles...Ray is always there when we have questions or need help. We can't recommend StrongBox enough.
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i have pennywize on there right now but want to make the switch over to strongbox
how easy is the process? and how long would it take? i've been told my server is "set up differently" on several occasions, so sometimes the simplest stuff like cronjobs and what not never work right without 3 tech guys getting involved for me i want to avoid that kinda headache again
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dunno man.. i am having doubts now. i emailed Ray since thursday night. shot him another one Friday. but still no preplies. he was on this thread like a hawk yappin about how good his script is. here we are more than 72 hours later, script been paid for and not even a single email from him ![]() |
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i'll think it over some more
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Sorry Alchemist, my 'net connection started fucking
up on Friday and was pretty much unusable until about noon today, so I got way behind. Bad timing too as interest in Strongbox has really been high these last couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm replying to your email now.
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id just like to back what everyone else has said....nothing but good words for htis script
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a headache, but that's my headache, not yours. I set everything up for you. It's hard to say much more than that having been told only that your server is "set up differently" and takes 3 tech guys to add a simple cron entry. I have been doing programming and sysadmin for while, so sometimes I can get things figured out and done a bit faster than your average code monkey. On the other hand I think I mentioned in my other post that where I had choices between making Strongbox easy to setup or making it secure I went with secure, so it's not always the easiest thing to set up. Which is one reason I set it up for you while you are doing whatever it is that you do best.
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We use it on Arika's site and love it. Of all the people it has blocked or dropped, not one has been a mistake. Often after getting a complaint from someone we look at some of the more popular pass trading or cracking sites and low and behold the offenders info is right there. Sometimes it even shows up in the stats when they update.
Also, Ray has never taken more than a few minutes to respond to our questions and help us avoid any problems when we build new pages, etc. I would recommend SB to anyone, and once we have more sites up I will be putting on all those as well.
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it seems to obviously be working, but it kinda makes me wonder how many are "getting thru" i definitely need to look into this some more ![]()
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I was on Pennywize, and paying weekly to have a substandard solution to password thieves. I had Ray install Strongbox, and have been nothing but happy with it. Ray went well beyond the "normal" setup, and worked with me for 3+ days to get it working perfectly on my server, and with my plugins.
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Okay Ray this is getting ridiculous... day 5 and still not a single email from you. I called your listed number, got your voicemail, left you a message with my phone number, and you don't even have the decency to call me back.
i understand that eveybody in this business is one way or another busy. but there are basic laws of business that people should abide by. getting back to people promptly after they have paid for services is one of them. i'll be even happier if you tell me that you don't want my business (for whatever reason), and ask me to go look somehwere else. then at least i'll know where i am standing.. |
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Alchemist what'sd your email addy or phone number
or ICQ number or something? I think I've replied to all of the emails I've received. I'm also on ICQ at 7208627
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For the benefit of anyone following this thread,
it turned out that Alchemist's ISP was dropping my emails. All this spam means spam filters have to get so tough lately. ![]() Anyway we did get in touch through his other email address and we're setting him up.
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Everyhting is being worked out and he's already been working on installing the script. A real class act even though i disturbed him with my phone calls, while he was having quality time with his family ![]() |
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